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During the 1970s and 1980s, as the internet began to be available for academic and public use, the types of services it was able to support were basic compared to those which would emerge in the 1990s. Text‐based applications such as bulletin board systems (BBS) and early examples of email represented some of the most complex use cases of the system. With no real‐time element and a simple range of content, the level of centralisation was sufficient to support the small userbase.

It may seem obvious to us in hindsight that the internet would achieve the explosive growth that it has over its lifetime in terms of every possible characteristic from number of users to the volume of data that each individual user would transmit on a daily basis. However, it is a testament to the first principles of the design of the internet that its foundational protocols and technologies have, with the addition of more modern solutions where needed, been able to scale up over time as required.